Translation of "small and medium-sized industries " (English → French) :

small and medium-sized industries | SMI [Abbr.] | SMIs [Abbr.]

small and medium industries [ small and medium-sized industries | SMI ]

European Committee for Small and Medium-Sized Independent Companies | European Committee for Small and Medium-sized Industries | European Committee of Independent Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises | Europmi [Abbr.] | EUROSME [Abbr.]

European Committee for Small and Medium Sized Independent Companies [ Liaison Committee for Small and Medium-Sized Industrial Enterprises in the EEC ]

Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium-sized Industries and Handicrafts | EOMMEX [Abbr.]

International Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Industrial Enterprises

small and medium-sized enterprises [ EBIC | European Business and Innovation Centre | European Observatory for SMEs | small and medium-sized businesses | small and medium-sized undertakings | SMEs | SMUs ]

small and medium enterprise | SME | small and medium-sized business | SMB | small and medium business | small and mid-sized enterprise | small and mid-sized business | small & medium business | small and medium firm | SMF | small or medium enterprise | small or medium firm | small to medium sized business

small or medium-sized enterprise [ small or medium-size enterprise | small or medium enterprise | small or medium-sized business | small to medium-size business ]

executive agency [ Chafea | Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency | EACEA | EACI | EAHC | EASME | Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency | ERCEA | European Research Council Executive Agency | Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation | Executive Agency for Health and Consumers | Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises | INEA | Innovation and Networks Executive Agency | REA | Research Executive Agency | TEN-T EA | Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency ]

In order to allow European industry, particularly small and medium sized industries, to recruit - in cases of real need - successfully and quickly from third countries, employers need a practical tool for demonstrating that there is a concrete shortage on the EU labour market.

Points out that although European electricity retail prices for small and medium-sized industrial and business customers and private consumers are relatively high in many Member States, investing in energy efficiency can boost the competitiveness of European businesses and reduce energy costs for private consumers; stresses, however, that the electricity bill in the EU consists on average of one third of indirect, state-induced tax and levies for private households, which when applied as fixed elements on bills, can make it difficult ...[+++] for consumers to feel the benefits from energy saving, and contributes to energy poverty; notes that levies to finance European climate and energy policies are the smallest part of the bill; and underlines that the high energy prices in the EU result in a difference in energy prices between EU Member States and our main competitors in large parts of the world, which inhibit the competitiveness of European energy-intensive industries; notes that innovation also increases with greater investment in energy efficiency, placing EU industry in a world-leading position.

Of particular relevance for the new Programme is the flagship initiative “An industrial policy for the globalization era” which outlined a new strategic approach, addressing European competitiveness as well as the creation and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises and the promotion of an entrepreneurial culture.

Calls for EU quality and security standards, as well as an EU system and network of laboratories for the certification of CBRN security equipment and technologies, to be developed; underlines that strict security standards and hiring procedures also need to apply to personnel employed at facilities with access to harmful agents; calls for the sharing and use of best knowledge and expertise from both the civil and military fields; again under the leadership of the Commission, stresses that the necessary research and development funding should be provided to ensure that applied research and major demonstration programmes with an EU dimension are carried out, and, given the fragmentation of this market, that an EU industrial policy in the f ...[+++]ield of civil security is needed, stimulating cooperation between enterprises in the EU and with specific support for small and medium-sized enterprises/small and medium-sized industries (SMEs/SMIs), which create a significant share of innovation under the FP7/Security, which should be increased, and that efforts should be made to stimulate cooperation (particularly cross-border cooperation) between European enterprises; wishes to see the emergence of a comprehensive project management capability to manage all aspects of CBRN security projects, covering the entire life cycle of the CBRN threat (prevention, detection and response); calls on the Commission to propose a strategy for developing the biodefence industry in Europe;